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Listen to Ross Gay read “A Small Needful Fact.”
One year and three days ago, Staten Island man Eric Garner told officers “I can’t breathe” 11 times while in a chokehold by Officer Daniel Pantaleo — his last words...

Handguns are displayed on Nov. 13, 2014, in a case at Metro Shooting Supplies in Bridgeton, MO. Photo by Jim Young/Reuters
Following the Wednesday church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina that left nine people dead, debate over gun ownership...

A new ambitious search might be able to detect signs of extraterrestrial life as far away as Andromeda Galaxy, which is 2.5 million lights years from our Milky Way. Photo by GALEX, JPL-Caltech, NASA
The quest for finding life outside our planet...

U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari L in the Oval Office Monday. Photo by Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama welcomed Nigeria’s new president to the Oval Office on Monday and...

[Watch Video]Following formal restoration of diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States, the Embassy of Cuba officially re-opens in Washington today. PBS NewsHour will live stream a flag-raising ceremony, scheduled for 10:30 a.m. EDT,...